ICCH vs. KINS, ASPS, AHT, HNNA, NSTS, BAFN, ICMB, CLST, BOTJ, and SDIG
Should you be buying ICC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICC include Kingstone Companies (KINS), Altisource Portfolio Solutions (ASPS), Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT), Hennessy Advisors (HNNA), NSTS Bancorp (NSTS), BayFirst Financial (BAFN), Investcorp Credit Management BDC (ICMB), Catalyst Bancorp (CLST), Bank of the James Financial Group (BOTJ), and Stronghold Digital Mining (SDIG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Kingstone Companies (NASDAQ:KINS) and ICC (NASDAQ:ICCH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk and community ranking.
ICC has a net margin of 5.91% compared to ICC's net margin of -4.28%. Kingstone Companies' return on equity of 8.08% beat ICC's return on equity.
In the previous week, ICC had 33 more articles in the media than Kingstone Companies. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for ICC and 3 mentions for Kingstone Companies. ICC's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Kingstone Companies' score of -0.14 indicating that Kingstone Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ICC has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kingstone Companies. Kingstone Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kingstone Companies currently has a consensus price target of $1.75, indicating a potential downside of 57.83%. Given ICC's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Kingstone Companies is more favorable than ICC.
Kingstone Companies has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ICC has a beta of 0.24, suggesting that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kingstone Companies received 58 more outperform votes than ICC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.71% of users gave Kingstone Companies an outperform vote while only 64.95% of users gave ICC an outperform vote.
14.9% of Kingstone Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.5% of ICC shares are held by institutional investors. 10.4% of Kingstone Companies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.8% of ICC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
ICC beats Kingstone Companies on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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